Wednesday, October 14, 2009

CM PRESS # 841

FREE FISH TACOS TODAY IN COSTA MESA
Grand opening special at Baja Fish Tacos at 171 E. 17th Street until 9 pm tonight. LINK to OC REGISTER article. The location is on the south side of the street in a shopping center just west of Orange Ave.

Of course, if you're into free food all the time, you can visit the best restaurant on W. 19th Street--the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen at 720 W. 19th Street, between Placentia and Pomona. Having a free soup kitchen as the best restaurant on the street says something about the Westside. Er...something we'd rather not say.

Anyway, you too can live like a millionaire in Costa Mesa just by taking advantage of all the freebies.
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WILL THERE BE A HATE CRIME INVESTIGATION OF ACCUSED UCLA SLASHER?


Damon Thompson is accused of an unprovoked attack on 20-year-old Katherine Rosen last week in which Thompson allegedly slashed Rosen's throat.

In reporting on this incident today (HERE), the LA TIMES sounds sympathetic to the attacker who is described as "hard working" (Awwwww),and with no prior criminal record (Awwwww). We are also told that his mother flew into Los Angeles from Belize (Awwwww) and his father arrived from out of state (Awwwww) for his arraignment.

His defense attorney then describes the reported attack on Rosen as "a sad situation for all parties involved" (Awwwww).

Ah, yes, it's a sad situation, especially for the innocent victim.

But by stating it that way, the defense attorney makes the intentional slashing of Rosen sound as though it was some sort of mutual accident in which both parties had an equal hand. They didn't. Other news reports indicate that Rosen was apparently just minding her own business when Thompson attacked her.

What about possible motives for the attack? Could there be a racial motive? A religious motive? Is Rosen white? Is she Jewish? We are not told. Could there be a gender motive? Just another motiveless crime? There's no such thing. There is always a motive. We may not like the motive. We may not think it's a valid motive. The motive may make no sense to us. But a perpetrator always has some motive, some reason, in his mind for such an attack.

We are told very little about Katherine Rosen who is apparently the innocent victim. The TIMES tells us her name and age and that she was slashed and stabbed, but that's about it.

The TIMES doesn't bother to tell us anything else about her. Wouldn't readers like to see a photo? Wouldn't they like to know her present condition? How about her parents, did they come to LA? Is she hard working? Is she expected to fully recover? Will she have long term medical conditions? Will she carry scars for life?

Imagine, if you will, that Thompson had been white and Rosen black (actually, the TIMES doesn't tell us anything about Rosen's race, ethnicity or religion--which is often a sure sign that a victim is not black), do you think the TIMES would run the above piece that sounds sympathetic to the perpetrator? Of course it wouldn't. You'd be treated to stories about a possible racial motive even if there wasn't one.

We live in mad, double-standard times.

In life, we have to play the percentages. That's how we survive. But to play the percentages we have to know the facts and statistics of various possible dangers. Violent crime reports should give enough facts to give the public a better idea of dangers so they can live a little more consciously and a little more safely.

What does it mean when the police tell people, after various violent "street"crimes, that they should "always be conscious of their surroundings," if it does not mean to be aware of possible living human beings who may pose a danger to them?

And, then we must ask, do all other human beings pose equal dangers? Is that what the statistics and facts show?

Violent street crime is not an equal opportunity employer. The facts and statistics are clear about this.
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2 comments:

  1. The double standard and hypocrisy in America is heir apparent.

    If a white commits a crime, it’s a hate crime and da white debbil is out to get everyone.

    If it’s a black or mexican criminal, he or she is a victim or a byproduct of social injustice, racism, ad nauseum.

    I’m at the point where I don’t care anymore WHY someone does what they do. They did it, they need to be punished and that’s that.

    From the stupid school who sent the young boy to detention school for having his cub scout kit at school or the apartment complex in Oregon who banned the American flag from the premise on the issue that it “offend” someone, it’s always something.

    I’m sick of it and my neighbors, family and friends are sick of it. We’re now speaking out, taking time from our busy schedule and lives to organize and unite and defeat the enemy. There is no other way.

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  2. Really sad. I have to wonder. UCLA is consistently ranked as one of the most difficult colleges to get into. Their admission standards are off the charts. What was this guy doing there in the first place. Was this affirmative action at work?

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